Psychology : from inquiry to understanding. / Scott O. Lilienfeld ... [et al.].
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2011Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxix, 669, [137] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN: 9780205832064 (hbk. Student ed.); 0205832067 (hbk. Student ed.)Subject(s): PsychologyDDC classification: 150 LOC classification: BF121.P82Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: Psychology and scientific thinking; a framework for everyday life -- Research methods; safeguards against error -- Biological psychology; bridging the levels of analysis -- Sensation and perception; how we sense and conceptualize the world -- Consciousness; expanding the boundaries of psychological inquiry -- Learning; how nurture changes us -- Memory; constructing and reconstructing our pasts -- Language, thinking, and reasoning; getting inside our talking heads -- Intelligence and IQ testing; controversy and consensus -- Human development; how and why we change -- Emotion and motivation; what moves us -- Stress, coping and health; the mind-body and interconnection -- Social psychology; how others affects us -- Personality; who we are -- Psychological disorders; when adaptation breaks down -- Psychological and biological treatments; helping people change.
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